On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Terrence Martin wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good restricted or menu based shell? > > What I am looking for is a shell that will allow users to run a small set > of commands. For example > > pine for reading mail > passwd for changing their password > a .forward script (custome most likely) to set a new .forward. > > Anyone have anything they like to use? I know pine is a bit of a hassle as > it can be used to run external commands, so I might skip that one, but > definitely the passwd and .forward script editor. We ended up using pdmenu (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/pdmenu/) to create a menu based interface for the end users. They have accounts on a Linux box with their shells listed as a script that builds the rc file for pdmenu and then runs it. If you trap the errors and don't allow input (the edit menu option has a bug that allows you to enter a ; and then execute any command) its fairly secure and difficult to get a shell. And with pine you can always edit to source to remove the shell option. --Dano
